Re: [PATCH v1] Documentation: process: Revert "Document suitability of Proton Mail for kernel development"

[Conor Dooley]

On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 04:00:10PM +0000, Kanak Shilledar wrote:
> On Thursday, May 16th, 2024 at 9:05 PM, Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Conor Dooley conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > 
> > Revert commit 1d2ed9234c85 ("Documentation: process: Document
> > suitability of Proton Mail for kernel development") as Proton disabled
> > WKD for kernel.org addresses as a result of some interaction with
> > Konstantin on social.kernel.org
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > I tried to find the stuff on social.korg to provide a link
> > but could not.
> > 
> > CC: kanakshilledar111@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > CC: Konstantin Ryabitsev konstantin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > CC: Mark Brown broonie@xxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > CC: Jonathan Corbet corbet@xxxxxxx
> > 
> > CC: workflows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > CC: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > CC: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > ---
> > Documentation/process/email-clients.rst | 20 --------------------
> > 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst b/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst
> > index 471e1f93fa09..fc2c46f3f82d 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst
> > @@ -350,23 +350,3 @@ although tab2space problem can be solved with external editor.
> > 
> > Another problem is that Gmail will base64-encode any message that has a
> > non-ASCII character. That includes things like European names.
> > -
> > -Proton Mail
> > -***********
> > -
> > -Proton Mail has a "feature" where it looks up keys using Web Key Directory
> > -(WKD) and encrypts mail to any recipients for which it finds a key.
> > -Kernel.org publishes the WKD for all developers who have kernel.org accounts.
> > -As a result, emails sent using Proton Mail to kernel.org addresses will be
> > -encrypted.
> > -Unfortunately, Proton Mail does not provide a mechanism to disable the
> > -automatic encryption, viewing it as a privacy feature.
> > -The automatic encryption feature is also enabled for mail sent via the Proton
> > -Mail Bridge, so this affects all outgoing messages, including patches sent with
> > -`git send-email`.
> > -Encrypted mail adds unnecessary friction, as other developers may not have mail
> > -clients, or tooling, configured for use with encrypted mail and some mail
> > -clients may encrypt responses to encrypted mail for all recipients, including
> > -the mailing lists.
> > -Unless a way to disable this "feature" is introduced, Proton Mail is unsuited
> > -to kernel development.
> 
> Instead of completely removing the Proton Mail section, can we keep the
> mention about the Proton Mail bridge and the third-party hydroxide
> (https://github.com/emersion/hydroxide) bridge.

I think that is probably reasonable, but I think writing the replacement
text is up to someone who actually uses protonmail.

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